The men's 1000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Gerard van Velde, who had finished 4th in the Olympics twice already, delivered a surprise by skating a world record and winning the gold medal.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time OR WR February 16 Pair 1 Kim Chul-soo 1:09.79 OR February 16 Pair 2 Ids Postma 1:09.15 OR February 16 Pair 14 Choi Jae-bong 1:08.81 OR February 16 Pair 15 Gerard van Velde 1:07.18 OR WR

Results

Rank Pair Name Country Time Time behind Notes 15 Gerard van Velde 1:07.18 – 19 Jan Bos 1:07.53 +0.35 20 Joey Cheek 1:07.61 +0.43 4 17 Kip Carpenter 1:07.89 +0.71 5 22 Erben Wennemars 1:07.95 +0.77 6 18 Nick Pearson 1:07.97 +0.79 7 19 Casey FitzRandolph 1:08.15 +0.97 8 16 Lee Kyou-hyuk 1:08.37 +1.19 9 15 Sergey Klevchenya 1:08.41 +1.23 10 16 Janne Hänninen 1:08.45 +1.27 11 21 Ådne Søndrål 1:08.64 +1.46 12 14 Choi Jae-bong 1:08.81 +1.63 13 22 Jeremy Wotherspoon 1:08.82 +1.64 14 21 Mike Ireland 1:08.88 +1.70 15 18 Yusuke Imai 1:08.90 +1.72 16 20 Toyoki Takeda 1:08.95 +1.77 17 2 Ids Postma 1:09.15 +1.97 18 12 Dmitry Lobkov 1:09.20 +2.02 19 11 Pat Bouchard 1:09.21 +2.03 20 13 Kevin Marshall 1:09.26 +2.08 21 13 Tomasz Swist 1:09.48 +2.30 22 14 Manabu Horii 1:09.50 +2.32 23 4 Yevgeny Lalenkov 1:09.55 +2.37 24 17 Michael Kuenzel 1:09.64 +2.46 25 1 Kim Chul-soo 1:09.79 +2.61 26 6 Davide Carta 1:09.81 +2.63 27 1 Sergey Tsybenko 1:10.13 +2.95 28 11 Petter Andersen 1:10.14 +2.96 29 10 Pawel Abratkiewicz 1:10.21 +3.03 30 5 Christian Breuer 1:10.38 +3.20 31 6 Zsolt Balo 1:10.57 +3.39 32 4 Park Jae-man 1:10.67 +3.49 33 7 Risto Rosendahl 1:10.70 +3.52 34 2 Jan Friesinger 1:10.71 +3.53 35 3 Li Yu 1:10.78 +3.60 36 5 Dino Gillarduzzi 1:10.96 +3.78 37 8 Andrey Fomin 1:11.04 +3.86 38 3 Cedric Kuentz 1:11.26 +4.08 39 10 Grunde Njos 1:11.31 +4.13 40 7 Yu Fengtong 1:12.07 +4.89 41 9 Igor Makovetsky 1:12.33 +5.15 42 8 Aleksey Khatylyov 1:13.73 +6.55 43 9 David Kramar 1:14.05 +6.87 44 12 Hiroyuki Noake 1:49.18 +42.00

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